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====== Create Screenshots ======

==== Edit Screenshots & Compose text on Computer for a new pages. ====

I use this technique if I am creating new pages, otherwise I edit online.
Use a text editor or word and compose your text for the documentation
Collect and prepare the screenshots necessaary. Then upload.
 
==== Save Screenshots of OpenCPN ====
== How to take a Screenshot in Windows: ==

  -     Use your "PrintScreen" Key to copy it to the Clipboard. Alt-Printscreen should do the current active window.
  -     Then paste the clipboard into your Microsoft Picture Editior or your favorite Photo Editor, Gimp or whatever, Crop and Resize are the only actions needed other than Save As.
  -     Crop everything extraneous, never show more than the Opencpn screeen unless there is a good reason.
  -     Resize to no more than 800 max x less.
  -     Add any marks or notations that are needed (often not needed)
  -     Save it to an upload directory with a reasonably descriptive filename. Use PNG or JPG format.
  -     Try to compose the screenshots needed before doing them, it saves time re uploading new image.
  -     Windows 10 users may not have Printscreen button. In that case use Windows Key + Fn + Spacebar.
  -     To take a screenshot and save it as a file. Press the Windows logo key +PrtScn. Or, if you're using a tablet, press the Windows logo button + the volume down button. The screen will dim for a moment when the screen is copied and saved as a file in the Screenshots folder (which is in your Pictures folder).
  -     [[http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screenshot-in-Microsoft-Windows|3 Ways to Take a Screenshot in Microsoft Windows - wikiHow]]
  -     [[https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-take-a-screenshot-in-any-version-of-windows/|How to take a screenshot in any version of Windows - CNET]]


==== Screenshots and Photos:  ====

  -     Max Resolution is 800xLess.
  -     It is best to have a full screeen overall with first plugin menus up (sometimes all of the menus) and the screen displaying the particular action or function.
  -     Then it is very helpful to have closer clips of sections of the screen, buttons used, menus in particular, as they are used and needed.
  -     Try to remember that less is more

Keep it simple. Keep it concise, Extra words are not read.
Also the manual is getting pretty big to download.
